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Long Time, No See (2011)

by Dermot Healy(Favorite Author)

3.74 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0571210740 (ISBN13: 9780571210749)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Faber & Faber

review 1: I picked up Dermot Healy's Long Time, No See because a reviewer talked of Healy's ability to create Place. What I found was a writer whose lyrical prose captures the rhythms of everyday life depicting Place. The novel follows Mister Psyche, a young man full of melancholia - nostalgia - PTSD: "This was my day - to - day life since college ended - cutting lawns, and hedges, driving tractors, digging gardens and building walls, and looking after Joejoe and taking his lobsters from his pots out the rocks." A lump in my throat mixed withjoyousness as the novel ended. Wonderful, wonderful read.
review 2: I loved this book, and, after having put aside a couple of books without finishing them, it reminded me about how wonderful it can be to read an excellent novel. Thi... mores story takes place in an Irish coastal village in 2006. The narrator is a young man who is just finishing school and preparing for college. We see all that he sees but it is more as though we are hearing what he hears and seeing what he sees. The novel has plot elements, but it isn't plot driven. Overall, we realize what doesn't change with the times is the importance of community, friendship, family, and caring about others. This is not a sentimental book with a simplified message. less

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